By Mike Blasky, San Jose Mercury News When Michael James Tyree was killed in a San Jose jail cell, his lifeless body found Aug. 27 battered and bruised after an encounter with correctional officers, there were no Twitter hashtags, no spontaneous street protests, no national news vans parked on the curb. The rise of powerful […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, beginning with the recall campaign and on through his two terms in office, repeatedly linked the state’s tribal casino business to state finances. “We want to have the Indian gaming tribes pay their fair share to the state,” Schwarzenegger said during a 2004 news conference, “and […]
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By John Kelly, Las Vegas Review-Journal In Nevada, distressed homeowners don’t need to win big at the casino to score as much as $100,000 in order to keep their homes. They simply need a device with Internet access and a link to the U.S. Treasury’s Nevada Hardest Hit Fund, which wants to be the surest […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval made a last-ditch appeal to the federal Bureau of Land Management to accept Nevada’s recommendations for protecting the greater sage grouse. Sandoval sent an eight-page letter Friday to BLM Director Neil Kornze, urging him to reconsider Nevada’s strategies for preserving the bird’s habitat. The BLM rejected some of […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal With practiced labor, Tom Moura spills life across the land. Moura opens wooden gates to flood irrigation water across his still-healthy alfalfa crops. He knows he’s fortunate. During this fourth year of drought, many of Moura’s neighbors in the Lovelock area — arguably the bulls-eye for drought in Nevada — […]
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By Scott Smith, AP FRESNO — A vast and stubborn wildfire that has proven California’s biggest this year was expected to spew smoke through the long Labor Day weekend, leaving some campgrounds empty and prompting health warnings. This Rough Fire is the one that has sporadically brought smoke into the Lake Tahoe Basin. The fire […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s about 12:30am Saturday and a distinct conversation can be heard coming from the back yard of the next street. It’s a group of about 10 who are up from the Bay Area partying. They are here for this long weekend. They are going home with a $270 citation for excessive noise […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP The minister of one of several churches hit by a string of vandalism on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe says they appear to be satanic attacks by an individual who is “very angry with Jesus.” “I’ve seen nothing that would give a hint it was socially or politically motivated,” said […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee State and local officials have preached for months that California’s historic drought could be “the new normal,” the precursor to more frequent years-long episodes of hotter temperatures, less rainfall and lower Sierra snowpack. Californians across the state have responded en masse to the call for lifestyle changes, curtailing water use, […]
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By Kathryn Reed A cabin along the Old Lincoln Highway in Zephyr Cove was totally destroyed by fire Friday night. One occupant, who was visiting from out of town, was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital with minor burns from having tried to extinguish the blaze. That person has since been discharged. The cause of the […]
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